AccessiWeb 2.2 - Rule 8.9.1

Summary

Business description

On each Web page tags must not be used (except div, span and table) only for layout. Does this rule have been followed?

Level : Bronze

Technical description

Scope : page

Decision level :
semidecidable

Algorithm

Selection

Selection1 : all the <a> tags without href, name or id attribute (a:not([href]):not([name]):not([id]))

Selection2 : all the fieldset not within a form (fieldset:not(form fieldset):not(\*[role=search] fieldset):not(\*[role=form] fieldset))

Process

Test1 :

We check whether Selection1 AND Selection2 are empty. If true, raise a MessageA

MessageA : No suspect pattern detected

code :NoPatternDetected

status: NMI

present in source : no

For each occurence of the Selection1 raise a MessageB

MessageB : Link without target

code :LinkWithoutTarget

status: Failed

parameter : snippet

present in source : yes

For each occurence of the Selection2 raise a MessageC

MessageC : Fieldset not within a form

code :FieldsetNotWithinForm

status: Failed

parameter : snippet

present in source : yes

Test1 :

Analysis

Failed :

Test1 returns false (The page contains a link without target or a fieldset not within a form)

Pre-qualified :

Test1 returns true

Notes

On latest webdev data set (2013-10-30, 78,000 pages), links without target (a:not([href]):not([name]):not([id])) have been found on 18256 pages, i.e on 23% of the pages.

On latest webdev data set (2013-10-30, 78,000 pages), fieldsets not within form (fieldset:not(form fieldset):not(\*[role=search] fieldset):not(\*[role=form] fieldset)) have been found on 982 pages, i.e
on 1.25% of the pages.